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I'm looking through a lot of advice on this forum, and some of the schedules you have laid out for yourselves seem impossible to me. I'm a full time student with a job, and I study as much as I can but nowhere as much as you all seem to. Anyone have advice on fitting all LSAT studying into weekends?

It's not easy when you're a full time student holding a job. That's why so many people recommend taking a year off to take the time needed to kill the LSAT.

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KMart wrote:It's not easy when you're a full time student holding a job. That's why so many people recommend taking a year off to take the time needed to kill the LSAT.

Yep, it's definitely a difficult thing to do in your situation. It's really a matter of priorities and how important doing well on the LSAT is to you (after all there are only so many hours in a day).

I was in school and working part-time, and the only way I could really make it work was by just zoning in on the test. I even broke up with my girlfriend at the time. For me, getting a great score was worth it

FWIW op - I was working part time and in school when I was studying. I decided to work about 1/3rd as much (down from 30 to 10 each week). It's all about the priority for you and is relative to your individual situation.

Most people are lying. It's the internet, dude.

seashell.economy wrote:Most people are lying. It's the internet, dude.

To add to this, if these people really are studying 20+ hours per week for months and still can't break 170, I question whether they have the intellectual capacity to succeed at a "top law school" and become a big shot lawyer.

RZ5646 wrote:

seashell.economy wrote:Most people are lying. It's the internet, dude.

To add to this, if these people really are studying 20+ hours per week for months and still can't break 170, I question whether they have the intellectual capacity to succeed at a "top law school" and become a big shot lawyer.

Why? Getting to X Percentile is generally not the same to other standardized tests for grad school......Many people on here will tell you it is much easier to get a 90% percentile GRE than a 90% LSAT.....Because the LSAT is so important to law school, applicants are going to study much harder than a GRE where the GRE is just a part of the puzzle.

Take it from a guy who studied 20+ hours per week for months to reach a top 10% LSAT but took the GRE cold turkey and got a top 10% GRE

Broncos15 wrote:

RZ5646 wrote:

seashell.economy wrote:Most people are lying. It's the internet, dude.

To add to this, if these people really are studying 20+ hours per week for months and still can't break 170, I question whether they have the intellectual capacity to succeed at a "top law school" and become a big shot lawyer.

Why? Getting to X Percentile is generally not the same to other standardized tests for grad school......Many people on here will tell you it is much easier to get a 90% percentile GRE than a 90% LSAT.....Because the LSAT is so important to law school, applicants are going to study much harder than a GRE where the GRE is just a part of the puzzle.

Take it from a guy who studied 20+ hours per week for months to reach a top 10% LSAT but took the GRE cold turkey and got a top 10% GRE

I'm one of those people who thinks that at some point you're just memorizing the test or developing nontransferable skills.